Ashes on the Prairie by Michael Nickerson - Zona

Ashes on the Prairie

Track · Apr 12, 2026 · English

Ashes on the Prairie

Michael Nickerson

Duration

4:02

Language

English

Lyrics

[Intro]

HEY-ya HEY-ya

HEY-ya HEY-ya

Thundering feet

Dust in our mouths

HEY-ya HEY-ya

HEY-ya HEY-ya

Paint on our skin

Fire in our hearts (hey!)

[Verse 1]

Smoke on the ridge

Hooves in the night

Shadows on water

Guns catching light

Blankets like winter

Smiles like a knife

Words we can’t taste

Traded for life

[Chorus]

Here come the pale ones, crossing the river

Cold as the iron in their hands

They write our names in ash and splinters

Burn down the drums, burn down the land

We were the thunder, we were the river

Now we are ghosts in our own sand

Here come the pale ones, and they deliver

Nothing but graves where we used to stand

[Verse 2]

Treaties like paper

Paper like dust

Crosses on hilltops

Bones turning rust

Children in wagons

Pulled from the dawn

Language like feathers

Ripped and gone

[Chorus]

Here come the pale ones, crossing the river

Cold as the iron in their hands

They write our names in ash and splinters

Burn down the drums, burn down the land

We were the thunder, we were the river

Now we are ghosts in our own sand

Here come the pale ones, and they deliver

Nothing but graves where we used to stand

[Bridge]

HEY-ya HEY-ya

Say all their names

HEY-ya HEY-ya

Carved into clay

HEY-ya HEY-ya

We are still breathing

HEY-ya HEY-ya (HEY-ya)

We do not fade

[Chorus]

Here come the pale ones, crossing the river

But we are the blood in these plains

You crush our bodies, scorch our villages

Still every wind carries our names

We are the thunder, we are the river

Songs that your fences can’t command

You tried to end us, tried to erase us

We’re in the roots of this stolen land

[Outro]

HEY-ya HEY-ya

HEY-ya HEY-ya

Ashes on prairie

Drums in the ground

Style

metalaggressive metal with native-influenced rhythmic vocal chants and tom-heavy drums; low-tuned guitars in chugging triplet patternssudden half-time dropsand dissonant bends. male vocals that shift between deeppercussive chant-style group shouts and harsh screamed verses; chorus opens with soaringmelodic line doubled by guitar. war-drum breaks with distant group vocals and subtle flute motifs between sectionsbuilding to a finalcrushingunresolved chord.native american

Prompt

Open with native American war chant, metal style native influenced song of the arrival of the white man and their extermination of the Indian race

Credits

Prompt byMichael Nickerson

GeneratedApr 12, 2026

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